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Joan Armatrading

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Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.
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In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the sa...
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ive loved an ive falllen but yet until now ive always gotten back up but ur blow to the heart has su...
AMBER FAITH HUN
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.
JUDY GOLD
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structur...
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He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of e...
LEANDER KAHNEY
We always believed that she'd figure out a way to get herself free.
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The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo...
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Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?
ANN PATCHETT
Ive found the true meaning of love, when I laid my heart in your hands
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HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Joan of Arcadia.
CASSIDY
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HERTA MULLER
Joan is rated one of the best in America,
FRANK MALONEY
Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI
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Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday’s debris.
COLLEEN LAUKKA
I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
BENMONT TENCH
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CHARLES YU
ID cards are always free. We don't want anything to stand in the way of families being able to get t...
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cea...
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Ive never known a person to live to one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. ...
JIMMY WALES
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HARRY WARREN
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...
MATT TAIBBI
As a kid, I remember feeling whimsical, giddy and unencumbered while camping and the campaign portra...
CRAIG FULLER
I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance.
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Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opi...
VIGGO MORTENSEN
We've been happy to accommodate them as long as we have, certainly we have to reopen the building.
SABRINA WRITTEN
Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representativ...
HARRY S TRUMAN
It's not always written in stone that a team that stays healthy is going to win.
ERIC YOUNG
The Passion of Joan of Arc
JOAN OF ARC
Ive done Hay Fever and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood.
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TINA FEY
A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.
TRINNY WOODALL
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
JOAN CRAWFORD
LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE
ANUJ SOMANY
I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to d...
SAMINU KANTI
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice
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Mortgage-free. Debt-free. Job-free. Clutter-free. Illness-free. Stress-free. Care-free. That's the w...
LORRIN L. LEE
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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A mousetrap always provides free cheese.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN
When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is alway...
ANDREA BOCELLI
The adult industry is all about freedom. Xpeeps.com offers the freedom to network, interact and show...
JEFF BEER
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
AMY CLAMPITT
It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.
MATT BOMER
firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like?
jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any
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Mortgage-free. Debt-free. Illness-free. Job-free. Stress-free. Clutter-free. Care-free. That's the F...
LORRIN L. LEE
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
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The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th...
THORNTON WILDER
In a world filled with poets, it was always you. You are my pen, my paper, my written word.
LAUREN VALENCIA
[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN
People will always want a free lunch.
WAYNE ROGERS
Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player.
MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY
I've always written down how I feel.
ADELE
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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering.
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I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.
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TONI SORENSON
When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
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A people free to choose will always choose peace.
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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
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The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find ...
JOAN DIDION
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, an...
JOAN DIDION
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
JOAN RIVERS
Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
JOAN RIVERS
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it&#...
JOAN COLLINS
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusia...
JOAN DIDION
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done ...
JOAN RIVERS
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t...
JOAN BAEZ
I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
JOAN CUSACK
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l...
JOAN CHEN
I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ...
JOAN COLLINS
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, ...
JOAN JETT
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding yo...
JOAN RIVERS
I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man ...
JOAN COLLINS
I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18...
JOAN COLLINS
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all ov...
JOAN RIVERS
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u...
JOAN RIVERS
Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same ...
JOAN COLLINS
I know who you are, and I am not impressed.
JOAN JETT
Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar...
JOAN TOLLIFSON
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f...
JOAN LUNDEN
I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He...
JOAN RIVERS
Action is the antidote to despair.
JOAN BAEZ
Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.
JOAN JETT
I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak...
JOAN JETT
With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat...
JOAN RIVERS
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ...
JOAN RIVERS
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral...
JOAN DIDION
Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ...
JOAN KIRNER